Comparative Urbanism

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This innovative volume offers new methodological foundations for global urban studies. * Proposes the reformatting of comparative practice to provoke new conceptualizations and contribute to more inclusive analytical conversations * Focuses both on revising existing theories and inventing new concepts for global urban studies, drawing on an array of theoretical and empirical resources * Provides a novel approach to urban studies, open to different urban experiences around the world * Features a wealth of rich examples of the many dimensions of global urban life * Presents a range of methodological tactics informed by postcolonial critiques of urban studies and by theoretical and philosophical understandings of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban